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For 7,291 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 48% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 62
Highest review score: 100 The Red Turtle
Lowest review score: 0 The Mod Squad
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,349 out of 7291
  2. Mixed: 1,826 out of 7291
  3. Negative: 1,116 out of 7291
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  1. Miss Sharon Jones!
    Cancer, ironically, turns out to be a hard subject to dramatize. We spend the majority of the doc accompanying Jones to doctors’ appointments and chemotherapy sessions. As compelling as this is to the person going through it, it’s not fascinating to watch.
  2. Ben-Hur
    As the new Ben-Hur unspools into insignificance and sentimentality, there are fleeting moments that suggest someone behind this $100-million movie was actually thinking hard about how to replay a schlocky biblical epic for a secular audience in 2016.
  3. War Dogs
    Phillips delivers a mostly by-the-book rise-and-fall saga of two bros in way over their heads, complete with ostentatious title cards that, instead of subtly addressing the film’s themes of greed and jealousy, only hammer the moral lessons with the grace of a rusty Kalashnikov.
  4. Hell or High Water
    Scenic, well-paced and rich in dialogue and character, the film is Coen brothers for the squares, and maybe the best middle-of-the-seat drama of the summer.
  5. Unlocking the Cage
    Normally, this would be an easy way to undercut a documentary, but the powerful filmmaking duo of Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker somehow turn Wise’s quest into a compelling and noble tale, no matter what your thoughts are on the views presented.
  6. Standing Tall
    In a smartly written, evenly wrought drama, the newly discovered wunderkind Rod Paradot stunningly portrays a troubled youth who makes Eminem’s 8 Mile protagonist look like a boy scout in comparison.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Kubo and the Two Strings
    The characters feel underdeveloped, to the point where it’s sometimes difficult to remain invested in their triumphs and failures.
  8. Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
    As Herzog spirals from the achievements and dangers of the Net to topics such as communication with space colonies or the likelihood that solar flares will reduce the world to flood and famine if they knock out all connectivity, it is hard to know how much of this futuristic stuff to believe.
  9. Equity
    The key problem is the figure of Naomi, clawing her way to the top and desperate to stay there. Gunn plays her as mightily determined and potentially abrasive.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Anthropoid
    Some of these scenes are masterful – and sometimes difficult to watch. But the real horror – mass revenge killings by the Nazis, including the obliteration of the entire village of Lidice – takes place off-screen.
  11. Gleason
    It’s a tough watch, but inspiring.
  12. The Infiltrator
    Unfortunately, the script is held together with something much less adhesive than, say, Amy Adams’s "American Hustle" blouse tape.
  13. Florence Foster Jenkins
    As fine as Streep is, however, it’s Grant’s movie.
  14. Pete's Dragon
    A surprisingly effective work of family entertainment that hits all its marks, and then some.
  15. Sausage Party
    If Mel Brooks went insane, he would make Sausage Party.
  16. How He Fell in Love
    Although its two lead actors are strong – and Meyers affords them a generous number of scenes where they can bare raw emotion – the film stumbles toward the end, and the central duo don’t develop all that much.
  17. Indignation
    And therein lies the difficulty of adapting Indignation for the screen; remove Roth’s prose from the equation and you don’t have much left. Writer and director James Schamus turns Indignation into a minor period piece, a precise but seemingly pointless evocation of the stultifying conventionalism of an American university campus in the 1950s.
  18. Little Men
    By the end, Sachs has raised urgent questions about immigration, classism, gentrification, loyalty, family and nascent sexuality – but he’s done so utterly organically, via 10 square feet of city. Lovely.
  19. Suicide Squad
    Regrettably, the film’s place-setting opening lays the scene for a different, more exciting film that never really unfolds.
  20. Into the Forest
    Both Page and Wood hand in tough yet delicate performances as, over the course of a year, adversity shapes their characters.
  21. Café Society
    Gorgeously shot by cinematographer Vittorio Storaro, who takes much delight in exposing the blinding sunlight and dusky interiors of old Hollywood, the film is lightly entertaining but largely pointless.
  22. Phantom Boy
    Adults should get a kick out of Phantom Boy’s sly humour but the story and the action is for the kids.
  23. Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You
    The film is poetically structured and Lear is a spry, emotionally involved participant in a lively bio-doc that succeeds eulogistically and contextually.
  24. Bad Moms
    Although all these actors prove the shrewd casting choices of Bad Moms, it is Hahn who makes this unassuming summer blockbuster something close to stellar.
  25. Jason Bourne
    While Jason Bourne isn’t half-bad as an action movie, it is a nakedly hollow exercise in resuscitating brand loyalty.
  26. Nerve
    Nerve looks fabulous and the pace is evenly adrenalized, which makes up for clichéd characters, a concocted premise and commentary that is a bit on the nose.
  27. Our Little Sister
    It’s subdued, at times even too leisurely, but the film and its characters are luminous, especially lead Ayase Haruka.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
    Finding deep meaning and satisfaction from this story will be difficult, but if it’s style over substance you’re after, then you’ll revel in the comedic chic.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Life, Animated
    It manages to be heartwarming and heartbreaking all at once.
  30. Lights Out
    Best of all, it’s tight at 81 minutes, which means a 7 p.m. screening gets you out of the theatre while it’s still light out, thank God.
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